Call for Proposals: October 5, 2015Deadline for proposal submissions: December 4, 2015

Digital networks have increasingly become primary sites for the transmission of news, history, intellectual and academic thoughts, as well as individual and communal sentiments. Contemporary activists, for instance, are using social media such as Twitter, Facebook and a number of other platforms not only as a mechanism to publicize activism, but as activism. Through these actions and expressions, people connected through membership in digital forums are engaged in an alternative mode of community building that transcends face to face encounters and engagements, all the while crossing and traversing multiple and varied
communities of connected social actors. This conference therefore focuses on the ways in which people of African descent are currently claiming digital spaces to articulate their social, political, and intellectual subjectivities.

We invite scholars, artists, and activists to submit abstracts of no greater than 250 words for papers, digital projects and multi-media presentations that provide a range of interpretations of the ways in which social media, digital platforms/technologies, and the creative arts (digital music, sound projects or performance) are critical spaces that (re)envision the political lives and
racial representations of Black people.. Please include the following details: title of paper or project, presenter’s name and title, name of institution or office, email address, and telephone number. Deadline for submissions is December 4, 2015. Presenters will be notified of acceptance by December 31, 2015. Abstracts can be emailed to Lynn Johnson, Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Dickinson College, at africanastudies@dickinson.edu.

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Gabrielle Hosein
has spent twenty years in Caribbean feminist movement-building. She began using poetry and Rapso as part of the Ten Sisters Spoken Word Movement between 2000 and 2004. In 2005, she created Steppin Up: A Feminist Movement-Building Game, which has been played by Caribbean participants from Cuba to Suriname, and has been part of the curriculum of...